Odriozola - CV

José A. Odriozola, Yantze River Scholar Professor at Beijing Forestry University, is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sevilla and elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sevilla. His research work is dedicated to Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, with a focus on Sustainable Chemistry for the Circular Economy, his research primarily explores heterogeneous catalysis, particularly the study of catalyst and catalytic reactions using operando methods. Since the late 1980s, Odriozola has pioneered techniques such as operando Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy to understand catalytic reactions and has expanded his interests to include structured catalysts and metal alloy oxidation.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Sevilla in 1981, focusing on the interaction of probe molecules with rare-earth oxides' surfaces. His postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under Prof. Gabor Somorjai deepened his insights into surface chemistry, contributing to foundational work in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

Odriozola has authored over 400 research papers and holds 12 patent applications in catalyst design and catalytic processes. He has supervised over 40 Ph.D. students, along with numerous MSc students and Postdoctoral Research Fellows. He has been awarded with the Senior Award of the Iberoamerican Society of Catalysis in 2024. His career accolades include serving as Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sevilla, Visiting Professor of the Universities of Strasbourg, Rennes 1, Surrey and Beijing Forestry and receiving recognition as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2022.